Social phobia is the constant fear of multiple situations in which the person will be evaluated by others; It is defined as the state of fear that one will be humiliated, embarrassed or behave in a way that will make one laugh. People with social phobia have an extreme fear of being negatively evaluated and humiliated in social environments or performance-requiring situations. In these fearful environments, these people tend to be extremely self-aware and criticize themselves, and physical symptoms such as flushing, palpitations, sweating and trembling occur.
The person with social phobia feels extremely insecure in a community.
The person with social phobia feels very insecure in a group of more than one person, is afraid of making mistakes, criticizes and blames himself for what he says or cannot say, and uses his own body language about how he sits, stands, and looks when he is among people. He constantly checks, worries that he will give a bad impression to others, and is constantly monitoring himself.
Traumatic experiences that lead to social phobia
We see that there are some main traumatic experiences that lead to social phobia. Being shamed, shamed and criticized by adults plays an effective role in the formation of social phobia in later ages due to the psychological trauma they create. Self-confidence decreases and the likelihood of developing social phobia increases in people whose parents and other adults do not communicate and interact adequately throughout childhood and adolescence. There is a high probability of developing social phobia in people who were exposed to exclusion, humiliation, physical and emotional abuse, and ridicule by other children during childhood.
In some people, the lack of sufficient social interaction practice in social environments rather than these negative interaction experiences. causes anxiety and fear; In other words, even if there are no traumatic experiences such as humiliation or humiliation, due to various reasons (for example, parents' indifference, negligence, overprotectiveness, not encouraging the child to social interaction sufficiently), they have not been able to practice the necessary social interaction, have not acquired social interaction skills and have developed an introverted nature. also in children There is a high probability of developing social phobia in the future.
EMDR Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Social Phobia
Humiliation, humiliation, contempt and ridicule experienced in the past, especially in childhood and adolescence. Emotions such as anxiety, fear and embarrassment, which arise as a result of traumatic and stressful experiences such as ostracism, exclusion, and accumulate in the limbic system region of our brain, are the cause and responsible for the excessive activation and chemical imbalance in the amygdala organ responsible for controlling the emotion of fear.
In the EMDR study, social Past negative experiences that cause phobia are identified and studied. As the EMDR study progresses, it is observed that emotions such as anxiety, fear and shame that dominate the person in social environments gradually decrease and disappear.
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